The Jamie Catto School for the Insanely Gifted

06/01/2025

Calling All Soulful Rebels & Sacred Fools

I have resurrected something special that some of you were a part of and loved in 2018,, aMaze!

It's cheeky, and tailor-made for the Sacred Fools, the soulful rebels, and anyone who rolls their eyes at hierarchical, overly-serious spirituality.

What you might love about aMaze

* aMaze is about finding space around the BS of our minds and our life. (We do not need a long and very serious furrowed-brow approach).
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* aMaze has all the good tools to help us all navigate life’s messiness with grace and humor - we don’t think this has to take decades. Little, easy, daily reminders of what you already know.
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* It helps us be aware of our patterns, our foibles and our humanness - No pressure. No judgement, just solidarity with each other, lightness, and joy, woven with the sadness, the grief and the other things we feel as humans.

A Maze is a 40-day online journey into more creativity, connection, and juicy aliveness, where you will also get the chance to be coached in a group setting on the things that come up for you.

Think of it as parts work meets piss-take, where meaningful spirituality and grounded psychology join forces to help you find space around the BS of life.

This can be a juicy appetiser before our upcoming Gamechanger and anyone who joins will get $75 off the Springtime journey…

Curious? I’ll be sending you more details over these next couple of weeks. We start on the 18th January and kept the price way down so hopefully everyone can join!

With love, laughter, and a little cheek,

Link: https://www.amazesacredfools.com/

Jamie

24/12/2024

As a Xmas gift I have made ALL online workshops on my website TOTALLY FREE until January...so just go to the SHOP link in my website and click on PRACTICAL MAGIC or MOJO BLAST or PANIC ATTACKS or LOOKING FOR TROUBLE or BULLETPROOF or DiSSOLVE THE PAST, IGNITE THE FUTURE or ALL OF THEM!

Fill your boots! Xmas can be a tricky time and also a time of opportunity to go deeper. These 6 different two-hour sessions have got a lot of treasure inside - hope they bring you some peace and illumination this year...

https://www.jamiecatto.com/shop

17/12/2024

Last reminder- 90 mins until this evening's FR€€ workshop:

The 8 Bowls of Fulfilment... at 7pm UK
..pleasure is transformative... let's move on from all this yearning and longing and enter 2025 with a generous portion of HAVING and ENJOYING ffs

A free online workshop before the holiday mayhem.

06/11/2024

Final gentle reminder - we set sail tomorrow, and though we may not be able to effect everything we wish to on a global scale, at least we can make sustainable changes within ourselves with a warm bunch of shipmates who don’t ever need you to pretend 🏴‍☠️🎻

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05/11/2024

I can’t keep my mouth shut - I’m pretty certain that no one who sees or follows my page would ever vote for DT anyway but just in case there are some Republicans here, may I ask some questions, genuinely wanting to hear the answers, not to be combative not to be polarised, I just really need to understand which parts of this to you are real…

(I am asking because from where I sit, the fact that a red vote is a vote for overturning hard won rights for women’s right to choose (26,000 women in Texas had to have their rapst’s baby since the overturn of Roe vs Wade alone) and also normalising mysogenistic behaviours - if the male leader says “grab them by the p**y” then many more women will be sexually assaulted, no? Fairly straightforward. Just those two things alone, to me, rule him out - then add being a global warming denier so no matter what steps the rest of the world take to limit emissions, the USA can make it all pointless, and of course 28 counts of sexual assault charges… what am I missing - how could anyone, especially a woman, even think of voting for him?

So I’ll just make a list, a numbered list and please just tell me:

1) which ones of these are untrue and

2) which ones of these are true but you’re okay with them?

is that alright?

1) all the racist and anti-immigrant lies and rhetoric about eating pets, about rapists coming over from Mexico, about all kinds of racist lies being told about immigrants

2) the misogyny and s*xism calling women dogs, boasting of grabbing them by the p***y, all the many, many s*xist and misogynistic practices, boasting about being a peeping tom at his beauty pageants, hush money to p**n stars et cetera - not to mention the many s*x abuse allegations

3) The barefaced promise to pursue his enemies and to use government resources to punish and get revenge on people that are against him, the generals who have said he’s unfit and that he asked them if it was okay to open fire on protesters?

4) the constant, constant exaggerations and lies and the fragile emotions of someone who is just so petulant and childish and immature and reactive, for example the all capitals text of: “I hate Taylor Swift!’” and a million other examples of his infantile behaviour. Is this person fit for Presidency?

5) his denial of global warming and plan to drill drill drill

6) His support of overturning Roe vs Wade subjecting women to unspeakable risks and pain (and for example 26,000 women in Texas having their r*pist’s babies) - he says there should be some punishment to the mother if she aborts…his claims of executing children who have been born after even 9 months

7) I heard him say to a rally “ if we had just one day of violence from the police it would stop all the street crime in a day”

8. The pretending to be a Christian in such a blatantly false way - he couldn’t name a single Bible quote and pretended it was too personal a question.

these are just a few for starters please just tell me are these untrue or are you okay with them or what? Over here in England we are genuinely confused that anyone could ever consider voting for him…

05/11/2024

Can I be with my feelings even when they are sudden and intense and uncomfortable? Can I be with myself? Or will I click directly into a strategy or addiction to alleviate or numb or escape?

Uncomfortable or scary doesn't mean something wrong. It usually means something's discharging, leaving, or recalibrating. The only problem is resistance. Let's allow a little discomfort sometimes and be willing participants in Life helping us.

03/11/2024

I know I’ve said it before but i’m saying it again 🤷🏽‍♂️

Nothing to be ashamed of.

Everyone here (and everywhere) is a mess.

(Some are temporarily better-groomed messes).

So just taking a quick moment to remind you that you deserve as much care, rest, space, benefit of the doubt and love as anyone else.

While you’re running around being a martyr and putting everyone else’s needs before your own, please take a moment to include yourself in the circle or generosity.

You don’t deserve more, just the same, average amount of love. No prizes for suffering and martyrdom, not even from God. Got it?

Oh, and drink more water.

01/11/2024

'If you search for awakened heart, if you put your hand through your rib cage and feel for it, there is nothing there except for tenderness. You feel sore and soft, and if you open your eyes to the rest of the world, you feel tremendous sadness. This kind of sadness doesn’t come from being mistreated. You don’t feel sad because someone has insulted you or because you feel impoverished. Rather, this experience of sadness is unconditioned. It occurs because your heart is completely exposed. There is no skin or tissue covering it; it is pure raw meat. Even if a tiny mosquito lands on it, you feel so touched. Your experience is raw and tender and so personal.'
Chogyam Trungpa

It's not exactly sadness although it's intensity is similar so we call it the closest word we can come up with. There's no word for it really, no not the sadness of something being wrong or negative it's a more beautiful and welcome sensation.

Let's give it new names. 'Grief' etc don't do it. It's Raw and Juicy and Rich like a perfect pasta sauce. (Yet if not eaten carefully can splatter and spoil your shirt.)

31/10/2024

One w e e k to go!

I love that we have stopped calling each Gamechanger a ‘course’, and instead, a 'ship'. It just seems so much more fitting to be a merry band of pirates setting sail together to find the sunken treasure :)

I created the this adventure because there's SO much more magic available when we gather as an ongoing group and can explore together over a longer period of time to dive deeper into ourselves and each other. Richer bonds are birthed and more long-lasting and significant leaps are taken.

ABOVE ALL we operate from the knowledge that PLEASURE and LAUGHTER are transformative...

…and my games really work without the down-drag of being so serious about ‘doing the work’.

Are you interested in harvesting the treasures of your:

Body and Deep Listening
Mind and Headf**k FM
Creativity and Inspiration
Intimacy and Connection
Pleasure and Playfulness
Generosity and Gifts
Breath and Chi
Shadows and Demon harvesting
Death and Chaos
Boundaries and Sovereignty
Magic and Quantum Fields
Integration and Peace
..come make some lifelong friends and stop doing all this alone...

(bring your own eye-patch, parrot and wooden leg of course)

"So glad I took this step last year. Jamie's GameChanger online group was life-changing and -affirming in powerful yet gentle, entirely humane ways. So well-devised and led. Thanks Jamie. I recommend it!"
Sacha

"Jamie has a gift to bring people into connection with all their shady, vain, judgemental parts whilst laughing. He is pure helium to an often leaden, heavy programming about what, ‘the work,’ should feel like.”
Georgina

"Gamechanger is learning about parts of yourself you didn't know were holding you back with people who are technically strangers, but soon become delightful partners in crime. Jamie has fine tuned the voyage and you will not be disappointed." Sheila

30/10/2024

ahhh morning weeping

who’s with me?

29/10/2024

How do you earn you right to be here or to be loved?

By being helpful?

By being beautiful?

By being funny?

By being wise or strong?

By being available?

By paying for stuff?

By being the provider?

By being extraordinary?

By being the dependable one?

By paying good compliments?

By having been through a lot?

By being a good parent?

By being a dutiful daughter or son?

You can score each of the above currencies for you out of ten maybe.

How would it be if they were all taken away and all that was left was the unremarkable, ordinary you? Would you still be loved and welcome without them?

Let's feel into that for a moment.

Who would you be without all the qualities that have historically worked for you and justified your inclusion? Would it feel vulnerable to...just...be...you?

I want to normalise a world where you don't need to 'do' anything to be loved. You don't need to earn your place by being or bringing 'this' or 'that'.

It feels exhausting to have to keep delivering, no?

You're welcome here.

You're welcome here just as you are.

Sculpture: Jean-Michel Bihorel

25/10/2024

Jumping into a swimming pool you can yell and make a big splash or do an impeccable dive without a ripple, but everyone hits the water and disappears.

Do what you love. This version of you ends.

24/10/2024

When we are here together looking into each others eyes with full presence, the feeling is....just...this. This-ness. This sense of presence and right-here-ness where we are totally with each other - where do I stop and you begin?

Here there is only the one presence that IS all of us. This enormous kind welcoming presence just says I AM.

(…and occasionally ‘lookathatface’)

23/10/2024

Lovely Gathering at seven

my usual z o o m

23/10/2024

Are you worrying or feeling squashed today? Are your negative thoughts dominating you a bit?

We all have these young outdated parts inside, child bodyguards, which are making some things seem much more important and dangerous than they really are, and by the way that they also harness our body chemicals they make their doomed outlook REALLY convincing!

The trick is to watch it happening - even though the thoughts and beliefs seem SO urgent and 'true' (because they've commandeered the body chemicals so compellingly) - the trick is to STAY PRESENT AND AWAKE while it happens - knowing it's an old self-protecting process.

You can even say gently “Oh hello old friend.”

Usually our present-moment awareness and equanimity falls asleep at these times, a kind of spiritual narcolepsy, but with a few breaths and a tiny bit of gently strict courage we can witness and watch (non-judgementally) this old process. We can notice that this old pattern, this well-worn bodyguard is trying to protect us in an outdated way.

Then we gently rub our heart and be sweet about it and remember that these thoughts are not, in fact, TRUTH. With few exceptions, this moment is SAFE. And we thank that old pattern for trying to help us, and we gently relieve that character from it's outdated 'duty' - gratefully - returning to being the peaceful adult just watching kindly for a few moments...
..here we are again - all going through these waves together...

have a great day - keep returning to noticing without judgement...you got this x

22/10/2024

A wonderful announcement and so perfect as today was the day a true queen of Embodiment flew from this plane - at last we have crossed the line and dissolved the barriers so that I can now finish this tribute documentary to Gabrielle Roth (with the blessing of the 5 Rhythms Community)... let’s all dance a little extra today ❤️

Trailer for forthcoming documentary on the 5 Rhythms of Dance, founded by Gabrielle Roth.

21/10/2024

Poss trigger warning:

If you lose something or someone really precious - it's right that it hurts this much.

It makes sense.

Don't necessarily hurry yourself through it. The pain is a testament to that depth. It honours how deeply you loved.

And sometimes, when we remove the accustomed labels of 'grief' or 'heartbreak' and just feel it with the pride of one who loves so so deeply, who loves so 'all-in' you can feel fully accepting of your tender, romantic heart. Be grateful to be as you are, to experience such fullness of love even if it means feeling like this sometimes.

Then the pain can sometimes transform into powerful aliveness.

Life keeps sculpting us.

Solidarity to you if you're feeling like this today

19/10/2024

(then go out an ‘av it large obvs)